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National charity Diabetes UK is calling people across Swindon to sign up to a month of healthier eating.
A FORMER mayor hopes he can persuade people diagnosed with type 2 diabetes to give running a go as the new year begins. While councillor Junab Ali knew he was at risk of developing a condition as both his parents are living with, it was still a shock when he was diagnosed at the age of just 38. At the time he was about to join the Territorial Army after a successful six months of training and was looking forward to the future. The 46-year-old Labour councillor said: “I thought I wouldn’t need to worry about my health until I was, maybe, into my 60s. This was not the news I was...
A GRANDMOTHER from Combe St Nicholas has raised more than £2,000 for charity after launching a cottage industry making face masks. Sue Helliker first raided her linen cupboard to make more than 200 face coverings in record time for her daughter, Amanda, who works in social care and was struggling to get hold of any back in March. Sue’s skills with the sewing machine then got her granddaughter thinking and soon a couple of hundred became thousands, as a family partnership emerged and a fundraising drive began. The family’s efforts were inspired by Sue’s 11-year-old granddaughter...